Lotteries, Art Markets, and Visual Culture investigates lotteries as an atypical and popular form of the art trade, and as devices for distributing images and a
This collection of essays presents new insights into what shaped and constituted the Renaissance and early modern views of fate and fortune. It argues that thes
A radical re-examination of 2,500 years of European art, deconstructing and demystifying its long history from ancient to present How has art evolved from the p
In Anonymous Art at Auction, Anne-Sophie V. Radermecker takes the opposing view of the superstar economy by examining contemporary sales of Early Flemish painti
State Communication and Public Politics in the Dutch Golden Age describes the political communication practices of the authorities in the early modern Netherlan